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Democratizing Access to Data: The American Religion Data Archive

"Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700. The interdisciplinary nature means that this volume is the perfect resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars working across multiple areas including history, literature, politics, art history, global studies, philosophy, and gender studies in the medieval and early modern periods."

Religion and the Health of the Public fills a major gap in academic literature on religion and public health. Its innovative concepts provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding and working on the interface between religion and public health. It draws on global health history and practice - from London's 1854 cholera outbreak, to HIV in Africa today, to large and novel hospital and congregational partnerships in the Memphis. Calling for "deep accountability" by religious and public health leaders, it deals with the embodied religious mind, religious health assets, leading causes of life, boundary leadership, congregate strengths, and a healthy political economy - all in the service of transformation.

AbstractThe Chinese Communist Party is confronted with a growing gap that separates the rhetoric about socialism and party rule from the individualism and materialism caused by capitalism and opening up to the outside world. In response, the Party has developed strategies that draw on an understanding of the dedication to the Party that is specifically religious, yet does not require belief, conviction, or faith in a doctrine. These strategies revolve around the Leninist concept of 'party spirit', which, paradoxically, has been turned into a commodity that can be produced, supplied, and consumed. Drawing on insights from the anthropology of pilgrimage, tourism, and religion, this article discusses these strategies in the context of party cadre education and so‐called 'red tourism'. The article concludes that the Party is shaping its evolution from an infallible bearer of ideological dogma to a sacred object of worship as part of a new 'communist civil religion'.

Cet article repose sur un testing sur CV d'une ampleur sans précédent conduit en France métropolitaine avant les attentats de 2015. Le protocole expérimental compare les taux de convocation à un entretien d'embauche de candidates et candidats fictifs d'origine libanaise dont les candidatures sont identiques en tout point à l'exception de leur religion supposée. Les résultats révèlent une forte discrimination à raison de la religion : les catholiques sont convoqués par le recruteur au bout de cinq candidatures, alors que six sont nécessaires pour les juifs et dix pour les musulmans. Les hommes musulmans sont les plus discriminés : le candidat catholique doit soumettre cinq CV et lettres de motivation pour obtenir un entretien d'embauche, contre vingt pour son homologue musulman, soit quatre fois plus. Cette discrimination semble s'expliquer en partie par l'association des hommes musulmans à un risque de comportements religieux transgressifs et d'insubordination sur le lieu de travail.

"Culture, Health and Religion at the Millennium : Sweden Unparadised presents interpretations of Swedish culture, health, politics, and religion today, as the image of Sweden is being transformed from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more pluralistic, fragmented and gloomy society. The changing situation of contemporary Sweden means that the time is ripe to make a self-critical appraisal of the state of Sweden today. In six chapters, renowned Swedish scholars from film studies, literary studies, political science, religious studies and theology give their interpretations of sin, culture, health, politics, and religion in contemporary Sweden, with a particular focus upon its cultural representation in popular media. This book will serve as a background of much of the contemporary boom of Swedish fiction, both in popular literature as well as on the silver screen"--Provided by publisher

Introduction: Why Jewish, Muslim, and Queer? -- Part I. Boundary Crossings and Intersectionality -- 1. Queer-Jewish-Muslim: Constructing Hyphenated Religious Identities through Tactics of Intersubjectivity -- 2. Queer Disguises: Jewish Women's Performance of Race and Gender in the Colonial Maghreb -- 3. "A Living Tableau of Queerness": The Orient at the Crossroads of Genre and Gender in Proust's Recherche -- Part II. Public Discourse and Identity -- 4. Queering the Abrahamic Scriptures -- 5. A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of the Discursive Construction of LGBT Muslims and Jews in UK Media -- Part III. Building Community, Forging Solidarity -- 6. Religious Life Is Life Together: Ritual, Liminality, and Communitas among Queer Jews in Postsecular Britain -- 7. Eid Parties, Iftar Dinners, and Pride Parades: Navigating Queer Muslim Identity through Community -- Afterword: Lessons in Historical Nominalism -- Contributors -- Index.